Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry

SAP 23: ‘Invitation’

Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry

Show Notes

Today’s talk is based on Sri Aurobindo’s poem “Invitation”, which was published in Sri Aurobindo’s weekly newspaper Karmayogin on 6 November 1909, under the inscription: “Composed in the Alipur Jail”

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